“The heart of The Burden series.” Every story needs an anchor, someone who carries us into the world before we even realize it’s becoming our world too. For The Burden of Honor, that anchor is Richard Matheson. Richard begins as many of us do: young, hopeful, convinced that with enough effort and integrity he can shape the world into something better. But the world he inherits is war-torn, politically fractured, and haunted by the decisions of the generation before him. In many ways, Richard’s journey becomes a collision between who he wants to be and what the world demands he…
Category: Writing
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The Origin of The Burden of Honor
How a college assignment became a 10-year journey to publication. Every story begins somewhere — sometimes in a moment of inspiration, sometimes in a quiet spark you don’t recognize as important until much later. For The Burden of Honor, that spark came from an elective college course on high fantasy analysis. One of our assignments required creating a short story set in an original world. At the time, I had no idea that simple assignment would eventually grow into the foundation of an entire series. Today, TBH bears almost no resemblance to that early work… but the encouragement from my…